Myths about cycling, busted

17 Cyclists should obey all rules that pertain to car drivers (e.g. one way streets)

"We must try to put ourselves inside their skin and look at us through their eyes, just to understand the thoughts that lie behind their decisions and their actions."

I don't drive, but even I can tell how scary it would be to see a cyclist riding down a one way street whilst I am driving up it, there should be no reason to be cycling the wrong way on a one way street, likewise there isn't a reason for cars.

Safety > Time taken to get to destination, with no compromises.

I'm going to bring up red light jumping too, the chances of something going wrong whilst abiding by the red light law, are far lower than the chances of something going wrong whilst jumping one, hence why the law is around. Fair enough in some circumstances it is safer to jump a light, but if this was implemented into law, more people would jump lights, and there will be more casualties, thus making a riskier/more dangerous law.

What we are saying about motorists, is the same general category of complaints, as motorists are saying about us, fair enough a lot of the points are valid, and cyclists are disregarded quite a lot, but just because of this, it doesn't mean every problem on the road are car drivers and cyclists should be immune from specific traffic laws.

I don't want to sound like I am ranting, anyway, debate can be the greatest form of education, and is that not what forums are for? Fire away, prove my points wrong.